Winter... it sometimes drags. Yucky days and cold weather leave me inside much more than I desire. It can be difficult to grow photography skills when you feel trapped. Then I began to shoot still life photography. My little dog snuck into this photo because she wanted to lay on the blanket. I am a visual person. I used to work in a retail shop. Creating displays was something I did weekly. I learned to make the displays eye-catching and attractive. I was able to take those skills and apply them to creating still life photos. With the announcement that I have two new grandbabies on the way, I was in a baby mood. They aren't the photos that get the most likes on social media. Honestly, I think most photographers think of still life photography as silly. Unless you are making a mint in advertising, photos of random items don't pay. However, this is an area that has taught me a lot about lighting and ...
What scene does God have for me to discover? What light shines for me to capture? What is out there, waiting to entrance me, to calm the chaos in my mind and bring peace to my heart? This is what shooting landscapes does for me. I didn't intend to capture a heart, but when I went to edit the sun behind the clouds, I smiled at the heart that was there for me. It's one of my favorite moments... when I press the shutter and capture a moment of God's beauty. He paints the skies with such brilliance that I am compelled to capture the moment for eternity. I have become a cloud chaser. Big skies with gorgeous puffs of cumulus that add such depth the the photos draw me. The colors of the dried-up winter fields show a hopeful beauty under the big skies. We live in a world where there is much to see, and we forget it easily. We are distracted by the immediate; the phones, the to-do list, the noise, and the problems. We forget t...